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placebo pill, the true โignorant is blissโ suggestive medicine
Placebo effect is one of the greatest mysteries of all time. I believe figuring it out will greatly affect our lives for the better.
โWait, we had the ability to alter reality with our minds alone? Since when?!โ
โSince alwaysโ
โGOD DAMMIT!โ
So fucking true, the brain can be a real bitch sometimes
Iโm quite enjoying the sugarless candies I have in my drawer at the office.
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Not how it works though. It might alleviate pain and improve your perception of your well-being, but it wonโt heal you
Nope, the placebo effect can have physical effects and be genuinely curative. The level to which this is the case is highly variable from patient to patient, but it is inaccurate to say that is limited to improving sensation and perception of illness. Not to mention, in many cases the malady being treated is one of perception, for example, in pain management. And alleviating pain in itself has downstream positive effects on disease progression and patient QOL.
Actual chronic pain sufferer here. If I had a dollar every time placebo and positive thinking was prescribed to me, I would have enough to maybe hire a doctor who wonโt systemically downplay or dismiss my pain because of my age and gender.
I think heโs saying that although itโs a treatment, it is not a cure.
It seems to me you are actually agreeing with him.
The thing here is that some medicine doesnโt really heal either. Paracetamol is just a pain suppressant, and ibuprofen partially suppresses it while accelerating blood flow and thus reducing inflammation, which is why itโs used for sore throat, to avoid more friction and let the throat heal by itself.
Aleviating pain is sometimes what your body needs to start focusing on healing itself. Itโs not a miracle but it works when it does.
Say8ng that placebo effect doesnโt heal you isnโt really that revealing, plenty medicine doesnโt either and thatโs okay, thatโs not their objective.
Youโre right, those thing are treatments, not cures.
Itโs nice that we all agree.
My random conjure if anyone cares:
I see it like many โrealโ medicines that alleviate symptoms. Sometimes the symptoms are the ones causing the issues, EX. a fever to kill germs can kill braincells. But like any medicine that alleviates symptoms, it can also hide problems. So I see it as a case by case thing.Absolutely not true, it has zero physical effect on the body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL96to_4NYU Here, for more informationIโm going to trust multiple peer-reviewed medical studies over a youtube talk with under 600 views.
Specially when itโs on a channel branding itself as being skeptical towards science.
EDIT: On a closer look itโs straight up just one of those conspiracy theory channels and organizations that present itself as actual science.
And hereโs a study if someone wants to look at actual science regarding the placebo effect:
QED is actually the opposite of a conspiracy theory channel or organisation. Theyโre very pro science and critical thinking, and spend a lot of time debunking conspiracy theories and pseudo-science.
Iโve got no skin in the debate in this thread, I didnโt watch the actual video and have no opinion on the validity of what you or the other posters are saying, Iโm just pointing out that I think that youโre wrong to dismiss the channel as a source, even if you disagree with the claims made in that specific video.
on a channel branding itself as being skeptical towards science.
You may have misread - its description says it is a โscience and skepticism eventโ. Not skeptical of science.
Iโm with you, otherwise.
I hope you do, because no good peer-reviewed studies ever produced the results you are talking about. I urge you to show me which ones you are talking about.
And you should learn to look closer. Maybe get more that a couple of words out of headline, you know, how scientificly minded people are suppose to be.You are literally spouting out of your ass. There are multiple peer reviewed papers which show how the body can regenerate itself through placebo effect.
Itโs real and verified just like grass. Go touch some. You are way out of your depth here.
Then show me. I donโt want to derail you, so show me the best one you think of and letโs analyze it.
Go ahead and scroll up and see the studies already provided to you. You are a colossal waste of time.
Says the guy who didnโt even read the linked study
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=FL96to_4NYU
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What if the malady is mere pain and inadequate well-being perception?
Semantics, I guess, but it says โdiseaseโ in the meme, does that really constitute a disease?
The disease of a corrupted mind, burn the heretic.
